View Full Version : Kalman Tihanyi, Inventor of Electronic Television


yagosaga
04-08-2009, 03:52 PM
Hi folks,

did you know that the Hungarian Kalman Tihanyi invented a fully electronic television system already in 1926?

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=23240&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Kind regards,
Eckhard

Dave A
04-08-2009, 08:11 PM
Eckhard,

Thank you for this find. A Google search finds much more and even more genius. How about a flat-screen tv design from the mid-30's that could either be plasma or something resembling the Canon/Toshiba gun-driven phosphorescent design? All described as what we now know as pixels in design;

http://www.scitech.mtesz.hu/52tihanyi/flat-panel_tv_en.pdf

Dave A